Originally posted by monochrome The last step is Acceptance. Then you can sell some of the excess, unused lenses that aren’t part of an intentional collection, aren’t useful for professional or intentional hobby use - and are just . . . . there.
Or just keep them. No one is judging anyone.
More of a whimsical post, on my part.
However, I do like the acceptance stage.... as you describe it.
I like machines, old.... new...well worn......well used...brand new.... but most of all...for any of them... to be serviceable and as a result, used as they were designed. I also like to look at them to work them, use them to 'deliver the goods' and to look closely at how they function and their appearance.
Everything from old cameras to old lenses....to vintage English motorcycles to old American and French fountain pens. Etc. I don't have a big collection at all, of anything really, but what I do have, I appreciate and value.
One of my two old motorcycles is an old Matchless (1967) 750cc. It's a machine that was made near the very end of the Matchless production, a production that had started in 1899, in London. The firm was encountering difficulties at the end, and my machine is a conglomeration of parts and design that range from the late 1930's to the 1960's. It's an assemblage of both Matchless and Norton parts and it's mix and match, parts bin, bolt together special, is a reflection of a company making the last spiral downward.
But it works well in both appearance and function. It also has what seems to be sometimes, non ending photographic possibilities...if as I do, one likes taking a lot of macro photos of machine parts.